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by pault 8y ago
Hah. I just finished a huge refactor of an application where the back end developers "dramatically simplified" the business logic and architecture. What they meant is they removed all of the business logic from the back end so the
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by pault 8y ago
How complex were the applications that used those production-grade React setups? As the number of possible states increases, your vanilla JS solution explodes in complexity when you have to manually define every state transition. The declar
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by pault 8y ago
> I'm thinking that my simplest option is to just write a single page of JS that writes HTML to the DOM directly and works with data entirely locally, synchronizing it with a server API (.NET) when available. I don't know what
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by pault 8y ago
I don't doubt your experience, but when people say "toolchain" in the context of front end development, it's usually a reference to the dev environment and build toolchain, not the HTML/CSS/JS technologies them
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by pault 8y ago
After having some pretty extensive (heated) debates about the merits of redux here on HN, I've come to the opinion that the love/hate for redux is a consequence of the departure from MVC architectures that more experienced develop
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by pault 8y ago
I think about this all the time. I spent 2008-2016 in several countries outside of the US. Before I left it was incredibly difficult to be a socially active and employed adult without a car unless you lived in a major metropolitan area with
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by pault 8y ago
Holy synchronicity! I just ran into this this morning when trying to null route a hostname on my co-workers computer and nobody could figure out why chrome could still resolve the IP after we changed the hosts file.
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by pault 8y ago
Can you route 8.8.8.8 to your DNS server?
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by pault 8y ago
I wouldn't be concerned about random apps hijacking my peripherals since I assume they will always need some kind of prompt to make a connection. However, if the browser bluetooth API allows you to scan devices I would be more concerne
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by pault 8y ago
Man this is interesting. This is exactly how I write my react/redux apps. I wonder if this is an architecture that works especially well for UI in general, since games are very similar in some respects (lots of disparate components, mo
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by pault 8y ago
Fair enough. I felt the same way about JSX when it came out so maybe I need to give it another look. :)
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by pault 8y ago
This is interesting. The vertical slicing the author talks about sounds a lot like the conventional way to structure a functional component based UI. Components + state tree + selectors + reducers in a typical react app fit together in this
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by pault 8y ago
Are you counting the fence posts or sections of the fence? Edit: I think I screwed up that analogy.
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by pault 8y ago
> Will it let people build chips for phones like Apple does with their own GPUs and microarchitecture? Sure, and at less cost, but what then does that give the average consumer? Isn't the biggest benefit of Apple's hardware the
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by pault 8y ago
> typically used
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by pault 8y ago
The wheel is trivial and obviously anyone could come up with the idea. The reason wheels weren't used universally from the dawn of time is that axels had to be invented first. In order to invent a cart that can support enough weight to
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by pault 8y ago
That is stunning! The part about copper and solder got me wondering if it would be possible to create some primitive circuits for... something?
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by pault 8y ago
Sorry to be that guy, but further is typically used for figurative distances, while farther is preferred for literal distances. I always remember this because it was a plot point in a crappy movie with Sean Connery.
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by pault 8y ago
I am interested in this topic but I left after three seconds because of how spammy it looks.
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by pault 8y ago
The occasional exception is reasonable, if the exception is exceptionally clever.
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by pault 8y ago
Is it not acceptable that they were conservative in their predictions about the effects of Martian dust? I imagine they didn't have a whole lot of data points to inform their estimate.
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by pault 8y ago
Retarded is a bit much, don't you think? We are talking about children here after all.
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by pault 8y ago
> This is exactly not what happens in Redux projects in my experience. Sorry to beat this dead horse, but how does redux, which binds data directly at the level of the component that displays the data, make portable components more diffi
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by pault 8y ago
When I was a teenager I loved the series that started with sword of shanarra, but going back and reading those novels as an adult mostly makes me cringe. :)
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by pault 8y ago
Native UI frameworks don't have a 1:1 match on features and UI components, and a cross-platform library would have to compromise on the lowest common denominator or use so many conditionals that you would be maintaining three different
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by pault 8y ago
It has barely started and still pre-alpha, but I would add revery[0]. I know the team working on it and they have a good history of finishing what they start. [0] https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
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by pault 8y ago
I wish we could stop calling software we don't like "a cancer". It's hyperbole and detracts from the conversation, IMO. The phrase "x is a cancer" is a cancer. :)
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by pault 8y ago
I also have the chasing dreams when I'm feeling insecure, and when I'm feeling confident and satisfied with my life I can fly in all my dreams. It's a useful barometer for my general state of mind. :)
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by pault 8y ago
There are a lot of security experts on HN and I personally find it an interesting topic even though I have very little knowledge of that industry. Since the guidelines are "anything that could be of interest to hackers" and securi
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by pault 8y ago
> attitude that front-end should be easy, and then people are rudely surprised when they find out that it's actually very hard. Distributed systems problems, cache invalidation problems, combinatorial scaling of complexity with ever

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